search

1. The trial for Guapinol water defender Jeremías Martínez begins today in Tegucigalpa, Honduras: (Mining and Human Rights); PBI Brent Patterson On the morning of February 22, Libertad para los defensores de Guapinol (Freedom for the defenders of Guapinol) tweeted: “Minutes from the start of the trial of Jeremías Martínez, ...; Created on 22 February 2021
2. Salvadoran Deputy Ombudswoman for the Defense of Environment rights begins a tour in Canada on the case of OceanaGold: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); Toronto (Canada), May 12 (EFE Noticias) .- The Ombudsperson for the Defense of the Rights of Environment of El Salvador, Yanira Cortez, began a tour of Canada today to talk about the case of OceanaGold ...; Created on 13 May 2015
3. Tens of Thousands Call On OceanaGold to Drop its Suit Against El Salvador as Secret Hearings Begin at World Bank Tribunal: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); (Ottawa) Nearly 150,000 people have already signed an online petition directed at the Australian-Canadian firm OceanaGold urging it to drop its suit against El Salvador. Secret hearings will begin on ...; Created on 10 September 2014
4. In Guatemala, Harris Should Address U.S. Policies That Put Corporations Over People: (Mining and Human Rights); ... violently evicted the Peaceful Resistance La Puya, clearing the way for the company to begin operations. Unwilling to give up, the resistance camp resumed outside the mine gates shortly after, but the ...; Created on 07 June 2021
5. PBI-Guatemala accompanies the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya as court ruling gives mining company access to the site: (La Puya International Support Letter); ... Derivada [El Tambor] mine, they have not yet received the execution, so the preparatory process cannot begin. This ruling is not yet final because the Constitutional Court must resolve extensions that ...; Created on 22 May 2021
6. Pan American Silver Pressured to Shut Down Community Interference in Guatemala: (Mining and Human Rights); Counterpunch Jen Moore In the wake of a shooting attack, death threats, and fear of further violence against members of the peaceful resistance to Pan American Silver’s Escobal silver mine in Guatemala, ...; Created on 12 May 2021
7. Canada’s Mining Industry Is Spreading Havoc Around the World — With Justin Trudeau’s Support: (Mining and Human Rights); ... At the beginning of March, protesters pelted Argentinian president Alberto Fernández’s bus over his support for mining in Patagonia. Local and indigenous communities in the southernmost part of the hemisphere ...; Created on 07 May 2021
8. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... get to decide whether a sovereign nation’s laws were legal? We found this completely wrong, completely outrageous.” Outrage is a frequently occurring sentiment in a story that begins with “white men ...; Created on 11 April 2021
9. An unlikely eco-alliance in postwar El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... water defenders. These are not people with a lot of resources. Mining companies offered their towns jobs and money, but they were not interested. Why not? Robin Broad: Beginning with Marcelo, people ...; Created on 22 March 2021
10. OceanaGold (ASX:OGC) fined A$128,500 as environmental concerns at Haile continue: (OceanaGold); ... on its website. "We aim to respect, honour, protect and support biodiversity and the natural environments." Now, however, questions are beginning to surface about the Haile Gold Mine's commitment to ...; Created on 15 February 2021
11. From dreams of gold to organic agriculture: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... payment of his salary, added to the risk of being a security employee. In El Salvador, this work involves a high risk of threats, physical attacks or even death by gangs. "(At the beginning) I was worried ...; Created on 05 January 2021
12. Canadian corporate greed on display in Mexico mining dispute: (Regional News); ... safety and security measures. Equinox Gold’s misrepresentation of the situation has only provoked further mistrust. It also heightens the potential for confrontation as the company, jumping the gun, begins ...; Created on 28 November 2020
13. We Are in Danger Daily: Honduran Afro-Indigenous Garífuna Demand Return of Kidnapped Land Defenders: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Goodman. We turn now to Honduras, where preliminary hearings are set to begin today for one of the men accused of murdering the indigenous environmental activist Berta Cáceres, who was shot dead in her ...; Created on 17 August 2020
14. Pandemic fuels mining extraction in Latin America: (Regional News); ... industry was declared non-essential, mining companies in the territory had to close operations from the beginning of April, a period of suspension that had to extend until May 31. Yet, mining companies ...; Created on 09 August 2020
15. Corporate Lawsuits Could Devastate Poor Countries Grappling with COVID-19: (FTAs & ISDS); ... lawsuits from investors as well. Poor countries in the crosshairs The problem of corporations using ISDS to undermine legitimate public interest policies and regulations did not begin with the pandemic. ...; Created on 23 July 2020
16. Anglo American responses to AGM queries raise more questions than they answer: (Mining and Human Rights); ... of southern Peru, scheduled to begin operations in 2022. As members of London Mining Network, and together with colleagues from DHUMA (Human Rights and the Environment) in Puno, we helped to submit a series ...; Created on 22 July 2020
17. Status of the National Alliance against the Privatization of Water: (Regional News); ... we see with concern that in the more than 100 days since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, the Legislative Commission for the Environment and Climate Change has not met in order to resume the discussion ...; Created on 03 July 2020
18. Agriculture, a sustainable economic alternative to mining: (Mining and Human Rights); ... fees, would not even begin to pay for the damage that it would cause". In addition, the study reveals that the economic benefits of the mining project would not contribute to enhance the quality of life ...; Created on 26 December 2019
19. National Roundtable against Metal Mining Demands technical closure of mines and compensation for environmental damage: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... near the river stream increase. Rodolfo Calles, a member of the roundtable against mining, pointed out that the new government must begin the processes of environmental remediation of the damages caused ...; Created on 18 September 2019
20. DHUMA Receives Letelier Moffitt International Human Rights Award: (Regional News); ... to strengthen existing alliances in the US and to begin to make new ones with groups and organisations that will help DHUMA to strengthen its work in defence of the rights of Aymara and Quechua indigenous ...; Created on 16 September 2019

Start
Prev
1
2
3
Next
End

Allied Organizations

Contact Us